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12 out 19 quality starts. And up until the last couple days, the bullpen has been ok. They're getting abused because we can't hit. /season

Thornton had a nice run, but yeah, it's over soon. Good career.

Again, if you're asking your bullpen to grind for 3 innings every day, stuff happens.

I didn't see Gimenez get hit. Was he hurt, or was that just a regular pinch run?

What time do they postpone tomorrow's game? I got 3:30.

Short of a triple play, that's pretty fast from going 1st and 2nd, no out to inning over. What a joke this team is.

Fun bad

WTF

King Felix is getting that elusive 100th win tonight.

It really sucks the bullpen has to grind for three innings now just to get a win. Offense is killing this team.

Nice job by Axelrod.

Rays series looks like we'll see Hellickson, Hernandez, Moore, and Price. Can't wait.

David Purcey has been on a decent run at AAA. Wonder if he could take Veal's spot sometime soon.

http://www.milb.com/scoreboard/index.jsp?s...mp;ymd=20130422 Hawkins sitting

https://twitter.com/whitesox/status/3264150...9297792/photo/1 Loss Rainout Win

QUOTE (Chilihead90 @ Apr 22, 2013 -> 01:53 PM) It's kind of interesting and awesome that Johnson has done better, the higher he has moved up in the system. He was okay in Kanny, he was great in W-S, and now he is dominating in Birmingham. If he can be a solid 3-4 starter for the next five years, I'll take it. Maybe they get even a little more from him. But you got to like his frame. Hopefully he's Floyd with a brain.

Johnson's final line... 7 innings, 3 hits, 0 ER, 1 BB, 10 K 99 pitches, 67 strikes

Johnson- 6 IP, 0 R, 3 H, 1 BB, 8 K 82 pitches so far

Twins/Marlins snowed out. This season is turning out to be awful for travel, and losing off days.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Apr 22, 2013 -> 11:47 AM) If you have a bad veteran team making a lot of money, other teams don't trade anything decent for that player or assume their contracts. If the Sox want to unload guys, really good prospects aren't coming back and they will have to pay some of the contract anyway. They have been bad for 2 weeks. The freaking out is absurd. You can have a bad veteran team, and still have a couple good trading chips. I'm not saying all 25 guys on the team are bad. So if the Sox don't turn this around, come June or July if/when they know they can't win this season, yes, you trade Peavy and Rios if you get the right offers. You trade Floyd, Thornton and Crain to get them off the books. And as far as two weeks and freaking out....there is no freaking out. They just aren't good enough to win a division or a wildcard. They weren't good enough last year, or the year before, or the year before, or the year before that. This is a problem that is bigger than two weeks of bad baseball. They're trying to do the same thing over and over...field a mediocre team and hope to get career years. It's not happening.

http://www.milb.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?g...ox&sid=milb Johnson starting for Birmingham this afternoon.

If you have a bad veteran team, you trade the veterans to get prospects and free the salary to sign new players or put it into the farm system. It doesn't matter what market you play in. That's what you do. Nobody is going to the games anyway. At some point, they're going to be forced to take their medicine and take a step back in order to move forward. Right now, the Sox are stuck in the mud. They can't move.

Royals take two in Boston today. 10-7 record, while hitting 10 homers. They got 3 tonight.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Apr 21, 2013 -> 07:42 PM) Maybe 80-89 wins will win the division again Tigers just finished a 9-game west coast trip. They went 4-5. Now they go home for 9-- KC, Atlanta, and Minnesota. Besides Porcello, the starting pitching has been great. And the bats went cold this week, which will turn around. I still think they win mid-90's, but I can't see them winning less than 88.

Trumbo walk off. Angels sweep the Tigers.